GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
148 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
T600
CORE STATE
TU117
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1335 MHz
TDP
40 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 970
T600
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,664
640
-61.5%
Shaders
1,664
640
-61.5%
TMUs
104
40
-61.5%
ROPs
56
32
-42.9%
SM Count
—
10
Clocks
Base Clock
1050 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1335 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
10 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
4,096
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
224.4 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
42.72 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
53.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.920 TFLOPS
1.709 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
53.40 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
3.418 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
148 W
40 W
TDP (W)
148
40
-73.0%
Suggested PSU
300 W
200 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
GPU Name
GM204
TU117
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Turing
(Tx000)
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
4,700 million
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
7.5
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
329 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Quadro Volta
Successor
GeForce 10
Workstation Ampere